Paige's Trip To San Francisco

Sign on the BART to remind you that "the Man" is always watching
Me on the Subway
Pretty cool quilt created out of old upholstery and ties in my hotel lobby-I should learn how to quilt....
Me and my friends Jeff and Eric outside the Mascone Center the day before the big day of WonderCon
Here comes the Cable Car to rescue our aching feet!
The cable cars are manually turned around
Almost turned around
I am so excited!
View up the street
View down the street over the hill
Pretty water view from the cable car
Me at Pier 39
"The Rock" -Alcatraz
Sunset
ME!
Glad to see the sea lions made it back to the Pier
This guy had a lot to say!
At the Musee Mechanique near Pier 39, you can play fantastic "old school" games
like the Opium Den
If the Opium Den doesn't excite you, try the "English Execution"
Another shot of the English Execution game
You can get your fortune read by a scary old man
Drop a quarter on this, and you get a large mannequin singing opera
We finally arrived at WonderCon and my friend Colleen and I just had to get our
picture taken with StormTroopers
Don't make this guy angry, no one likes him when he's angry
Excellent Costumes
WonderCon only open ½ hour and the masses are filling up the joint
And they still keep on comin'
Waiting for the bus Gus
Clear Channel Billboard at the bus station
Me and Jeff
My friends and I at the delicious Stinking Rose restaurant where EVERYTHING has
garlic in it and whole lot of it!
Eric and I are quite pleased with the wonderful aroma in the restaurant
Garlic wine anyone?
View inside the Stinking Rose
Yum Yum Gnochetti
I love Beat writers so naturally we had to go to City Light book Store
So many books and so little time
View down the stairs of the old three level bookstore
My beat favorites
The smell of old books is just heavenly
Jeff used to live here on Powell and Clay up on Knob Hill-or is that Snob Hill?
Grace Cathedral inGrace Cathedral in the evening
Time for exotic drinks at the Tonga Room!-Look at the size of that straw!
We all have to help drink this one!
Inside the Tonga room, there is a boat in the middle of a pool that the bands play on-it
even "rains" inside the Tonga room
Made it to Haight /Ashbury man
Hemp Ale? Only in San FranciscoHemp Ale? Only in San Francisco
Most of my the friends at a punch bar on Haight-we are missing two other people,
they are standing in long lines getting comics signed today.
Back for another day of WonderCon-even NBC thought it would be fun to stop by
Not too many people visiting the 'con' on Sunday
Interesting booth set up
Ahh the smell of commerce in the morning
dance for free stuff!
OMG! Is that who I think it is?
Great Costumes
Zombie!!
Bat family